Duh, I just realized the game already uses a fog of war. I just didn't think of it because their bases don't change

... I've modded in more toolbelt research, so I have twice as many slots as most of everyone else.

Can you explain to me how to do that or release that mod ? I'm interested in it and if it means more research is needed to get it - even better !

tnx


It's quite easy to do these on your own ...

Competitive game mode:

TL;DR version:
- Combat would occur mostly through indirectly via independent combat units
- Aliens and alien artifacts removed
- Shroud of war
- Double/triple most recipe yields to speed gameplay up significantly


Details
- You have a unit manufacturing plant that builds ...

I joined the Hydra group on Evolve..

Although I'm from U.S., my playtime tends to be during the day there

skype: ryan.ogletree1

Texas boy here. I'm up for some playing!

I've taken a break since 10.0 or so to keep it all fresh. My gametime is more during the day (before 6pm or so).

I was a big fan of those minecraft mods too, and am a much bigger fan of Factorio at this point. But something I do miss from the minecraft side is the sense of discovery (via digging or exploration). Of course, working in only 2 dimensions instead of 3 is going to limit the sense of discovery ...

So to make it clear. I'm for the armies under the command of the player. I'm for needing a large infrastructure to make and arm your tanks/drones (would prefer drones). I'm for needing an infrastructure of roboport like towers (including range) to be able to use them. But I don't want to have ...

drs9999 wrote:Just use poison-capsules in that cases?!

Didn't know that worked! Thanks

Basically a deconstruction order that can only target trees.

Targeting leftover trees in areas I want to build can be tedious when there are other things around that you don't want to delete. Right now my workaround is just completely deforesting huge areas before I start building in an area. But ...

You have said that Factorio wouldn't become RTS if the units were manufactured automatically (the bread of RTS) and now you're saying you'd be controlling where your units go (the butter of RTS), therefore it wouldn't become an RTS.

Make your mind up man.

I just meant that if you don't have to ...

Y'all act like the game's limited to you locking yourself in your factory and watching stuff happen by itself, like the biters only exist so they can walk up to turrets and die. This is not true and has never been true. There are already RPG elements. You can build power armor and go whoop them up ...

RTS scene is dead and desperately needs a change. Pretty much the only competition there is is Starcraft - although that's a on a wildly different level that not even Factorio can only dream of achieving. CnC took the wrong way, then flopped around a little and died. The only thing keeping RTS ...

Instead of manually controlling armies of bots (which a number of people are opposed to, and it would suddenly put this game in competition with all the great RTS's already out there...),
RTS scene is dead and desperately needs a change. Pretty much the only competition there is is Starcraft ...

You guys may be tired of hearing a hundred different opinions on this, but here's mine :). I think it strikes a balance between quite a few of the other suggestions...

There two main underlying motivations that I can see:

1. We love automation . We love having minions doing our bidding that don't ...

You're amazing, thank you. I think i can tweak it from there .

Coincidentally, just 5 minutes ago I placed a lab that ended up being dedicated to you.

Thanks for the responses!

Okay let's so say I want to make Roboports automatically pick up all alien artifacts with 100 radius. That would be achievable through modifying the Fmod stuff right? (sorry, I'm not programmer, I've only edited some LUA numbers before)

Be it huge enemy bases, or accidental inventory overloads, picking up lots of items scattered on the ground can be very annoying.

3 ideas of solving that tedium:

1. Increased player pickup radius (significantly)
2. *Preferred solution* Using Bots. Basically an item like deconstruction blueprint ...

Awesome trailer!

Btw I've been loving the blueprint system for mass expansion. And there's just something about barrels of oil that inspires lust and greed for more oil. I find myself stockpiling barrels and barrels of it, just to have it. Maybe it's because I'm American.

As per title.

I apologize if this is something terribly obvious that I'm overlooking.